Would you buy an exclusive Austin garage floor lead?
We are trying to find out. This page is a question, not a signup — there is nothing to pay, nothing to install, and no card to enter.
What we built
CostPreview is a new site that gives homeowners a planning estimate for home projects. So far it does exactly one thing: a garage floor coating cost calculator for Austin. Homeowners answer six questions about their garage and get a real price range, free, without giving an email address. Some of them then ask to be put in touch with an installer.
Nothing is running yet. We have not sent a single lead to a single contractor. There is no network, no volume, no close rate, and no track record to show you. CostPreview is a beta, and this page is the part where we find out whether the idea is worth anything to the people who would pay for it.
A sample lead
Fictional example — no homeowner data
Garage floor project in Austin, TX 78704
| Garage | Two-car preset, about 400 sq ft |
|---|---|
| Concrete | Minor cracks, bare concrete |
| Requested finish | Standard flake system |
| Timing | Within 30 days |
| Planning estimate shown | $2,450 – $4,100 |
| Homeowner contact | Released only after acceptance |
The estimate is generated by the same versioned Austin estimator homeowners use. This example is illustrative; contractor routing and billing remain disabled.
The idea we are testing
- One accepted lead goes to one contractor. Not sold to four of you.
- Roughly $35 per lead you accept. Declining is free and is not held against you.
- No subscription, no signup fee, no minimum.
- Credit if the lead is objectively junk — dead contact, duplicate, outside your area.
- No credit because the homeowner went quiet. We cannot make anyone answer the phone.
- Pause any time. Volume could be zero.
What answering this does and does not do
- It does not create a bill. Telling us what you think costs nothing now and costs nothing later. There is no invoice attached to this page.
- No card, no bank details, no account. We do not ask for payment details here and there is nothing to set up.
- It is not an agreement to buy anything. If we ever do offer you a lead, that will be a separate conversation with a price in it, and you can say no then.
- You can decline later, for any reason or none. Saying “yes, I would look” today does not oblige you to look tomorrow.
- We do not guarantee jobs, enquiries, or that anyone will hire you. We have no idea yet whether this produces anything at all.
- One email at most, and only about this. No newsletter, no drip sequence, no passing your details to anyone else. Ask us to stop and we stop.